Civil War

Boy working as powder monkey, standing by gun of U.S.S. New Hampshire off Charleston, South Carolina. Photo taken between 1864 and 1865. From collection of photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy. LOC original medium: wet collodion glass negative stereograph.

A council of war at Massaponax Church, Virginia, 21 May, 1864. General Ulysses S. Grant leaning over General George G. Meade, examining a map which had just been completed by the topographical engineers. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864. Photo taken by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. LOC original medium: wet collodion glass negative stereograph.

Nicholas Biddle, an African American Union soldier, in uniform. According to data with the photograph at LOC, Nick Biddle of Pottsville, Pennsylvania was the first man wounded in the great American Rebellion. Photo taken in Baltimore, April 18, 1861 by photographer W. R. Mortimer. LOC original medium: photographic print on carte de visite mount.